against the wind by the help of the tide.

"The passengers were exceedingly frighted when, in one tack
stretching over the stream, in a place call'd Long-Reach, where
the river is very broad, the waves broke in upon the boat, and
not only wetted them all, but threw a great deal of water into
the boat, and they all begg'd of the steersman or master not to
venture again. He, sawey and impudent, mock'd them, ask'd some
of the poor frighted women if they were afraid of going to the
Devil; bid them say their prayers and the like, and then stood
over again, as it were, in a jest. The storm continuing, he
shipp'd a great deal of water that time also. By this time the
rest of the watermen begun to perswade him, and told him, in
short, that if he stood over again the boat would founder, for
that she was a great deal the deeper for the water she had taken
in, and one of them begg'd of him not to venture; he swore at
the fellow, call'd him fool, bade him let him alone to his
business, and he would warrant him; then used a vulgar
sea-proverb, which such fellows have in their mouths, 'Blow
Devil, the more wind, the better boat.'

"The fellow told him in so many words he would drown all the
passengers, and before his face began to strip, and so did two
more, that they might be in condition to swim for their lives.
This extremely terrify'd the passengers, who, having a cloth or
tilt over them, were in no condition to save their lives, so
that there was a dreadful cry among them, and some of the men
were making way to come at the steersman to make him by force
let fly the sail and stand back for the shore; but before they
could get to him the waves broke in upon the boat and carried